AI · Creating
How to write a book with the help of AI
AI helps organize the idea, build the table of contents, get past writer's block and revise. The voice, the memories and the last word must be yours.
bairogonzalez.com team, drawing on Bairo's story · Published
Many people have a book tucked away: their own story, what they learned in a profession, the family recipes, a novel they started and stopped. Artificial intelligence can help get that book out of the drawer, as long as it's used as support and not as the author. It helps organize ideas, propose a table of contents, ask questions that draw out memories, unstick a stalled chapter and revise grammar and rhythm. But what makes a book worth reading is the voice of whoever writes it, and that voice can't be generated.
If you let the machine write everything, you'll have a book like thousands of others. If you use it to write more and better, you'll have yours.
Why AI is not a chatbot
Writing with AI isn't asking "write a book about my life." It's talking, every day, with a patient reader who asks, suggests and gives back what you said in a more organized way.
In Bairo's view, AI is an extension of you. In his words, "artificial intelligence is an extension of the human, not the problem." In a book, that means the tool extends your memory and your discipline, but the remembering and the emotion are yours.
Step by step today
- Decide who the book is for. Before any chapter:
I want to write a book about [subject]. The reader I imagine
is [who]. Ask me 8 questions to find out which book
that reader needs and what only I can tell them.
- Build the table of contents with the AI; you decide. Ask for three proposed structures and choose, mix or discard.
- Use the AI as an interviewer. For memoirs, it's the most valuable feature:
I'm going to write the chapter about [period of life]. Be a
gentle interviewer. Ask one question at a time about
places, smells, people, things said and feelings from that time.
Don't write anything yet, just ask.
- Write the draft in your own words, or record audio telling it and transcribe it. Don't worry about form.
- Ask for a revision that preserves your voice:
Revise this passage correcting only grammar and repetition.
Don't change my way of speaking, don't swap simple words for
difficult ones and don't add sentences. Show me what you changed.
- Use AI to get unstuck. When you stall, ask for five different ways to begin the chapter and write your own sixth.
- Check facts and quotes. Dates, names, sayings attributed to famous people: AI gets them wrong and invents them. Check each one in a reliable source.
- Read the whole book aloud before showing it to anyone. Mark what doesn't sound like you.
- Think about publishing calmly. Self-publishing platforms and publishers have their own rules about AI-assisted content; read them before submitting.
How Bairo did it
The story of Bairo Leandro Gonzalez Martinez is being told right now, in chapters, on this site. He says there are no coincidences and no accidents, but purpose, dreams and execution, and writing down his own path is part of that execution.
He also knows what it is to build without knowing how. He says he spent six months at home, in front of the computer, without knowing how to code, "developing, writing, remembering," as he describes that time. Out of those months came the foundation of the platform and the artificial intelligence of CEASA Bank, a financial platform for agribusiness. Writing and building, for him, are the same thing: turning what you saw on the inside into something another person can touch.
Precautions
Your book carries your responsibility: don't paste other people's texts or family secrets that aren't yours alone into the tool; check all dates, facts and quotes; don't ask the AI to imitate a living author's style to publish as your own; avoid using your writing to give medical or legal advice without a professional reviewing it; and notice whether the AI is erasing your accent, your region or your way of speaking to sound "correct," because that's a bias too.